This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words … it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the … significant aid inflows over the last two and a half decades and also recorded significant growth and poverty reduction. The paper …

subsidies. This is despite the fact that energy subsidies exceed all bilateral aid in 59 per cent of recipient countries. The …

Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a … aid is questioned, few actors can offer more useful experience. Restoring structural transformation as a donor priority …, and recognizing the critical role it played in the development of Japan, is a vital step towards making the real gains aid …

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s …, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium … also assesses some of the concerns associated with the 'Paris-style' aid modalities, and discusses major challenges for the …

This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the … period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that … of policy, it is crucial to strengthen fiscal response to aid receipts and ensure aid funded projects are closely …

A dynamic relationship between foreign aid and domestic fiscal variables in Uganda is analysed using a cointegrated … vector autoregressive model over the period 1972-2008. Results show that aid is a significant element of long-run fiscal … are the pulling forces, while those to domestic borrowing, government spending and aid are the pushing forces of the …

Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in … terms of opportunities for intermediate class political entrepreneurs. In this context, the significant role of military aid … centralized organization of political power and less concentrated forms of aid allowed intermediate class political entrepreneurs …

underwriting more efficient but exclusionary public institutions. This aid-institutions paradox reflects a strong interest … coalition of major donors can and must institutionalize accountability by conditioning scaled-up aid at least with respect for …